'This new novel is a real heart-squeezer. Beautiful, one of a kind and perfectly titled' - Matt Berninger of The National
'An overwhelmingly beautiful love story. This book will make you cry' – Jonathan Safran Foer, author of Everything is Illuminated
'Genuinely powerful' - The Irish Times
A gorgeous modern love story about the lives that change us, and the loves that haunt us. Set over twenty years, August Thompson's debut Anyone’s Ghost will break your heart.
It took three car crashes to kill Jake.
The lonely life of fifteen-year-old Theron David Alden is transformed when he meets Jake. Older, cooler, more confident and startlingly beautiful, Jake likes the same bands, the same drugs, and has the same drive to oblivion.
Over the course of two decades, Theron and Jake get high, drift apart, and are brought hurtling back together, until a final collision tears them apart forever.
Theron wants Jake, and he wants to be Jake. But is Jake brave enough to want him back?
'You know those books that you take with you everywhere? That you won’t stop talking about to your friends? That bring it all back? That change you? Anyone’s Ghost is that book' - Junot Diaz, author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Perfect for fans of A Little Life and One Day.
Genre: Literary Fiction
'An overwhelmingly beautiful love story. This book will make you cry' – Jonathan Safran Foer, author of Everything is Illuminated
'Genuinely powerful' - The Irish Times
A gorgeous modern love story about the lives that change us, and the loves that haunt us. Set over twenty years, August Thompson's debut Anyone’s Ghost will break your heart.
It took three car crashes to kill Jake.
The lonely life of fifteen-year-old Theron David Alden is transformed when he meets Jake. Older, cooler, more confident and startlingly beautiful, Jake likes the same bands, the same drugs, and has the same drive to oblivion.
Over the course of two decades, Theron and Jake get high, drift apart, and are brought hurtling back together, until a final collision tears them apart forever.
Theron wants Jake, and he wants to be Jake. But is Jake brave enough to want him back?
'You know those books that you take with you everywhere? That you won’t stop talking about to your friends? That bring it all back? That change you? Anyone’s Ghost is that book' - Junot Diaz, author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Perfect for fans of A Little Life and One Day.
Genre: Literary Fiction
Praise for this book
"You know those books that you take with you everywhere? That you won't stop talking about to your friends? That bring it all back? That change you? Anyone's Ghost is that book." - Junot Díaz
"An overwhelmingly beautiful love story. This book will make you cry." - Jonathan Safran Foer
"In Anyone's Ghost, August Thompson has given us a devastating, heart-cracking, richly imagined love story for the ages. I read hungrily, relishing Thompson's poetic eye and deep respect for the complexities of life, loss, sexuality, and love." - Sarah Thankam Mathews
"This book is a monster: the magnificent writing, the gallery of characters, the fascinating glimpse into the 'right now' make it stand about twenty feet tall among new books I've read." - Darin Strauss
"An overwhelmingly beautiful love story. This book will make you cry." - Jonathan Safran Foer
"In Anyone's Ghost, August Thompson has given us a devastating, heart-cracking, richly imagined love story for the ages. I read hungrily, relishing Thompson's poetic eye and deep respect for the complexities of life, loss, sexuality, and love." - Sarah Thankam Mathews
"This book is a monster: the magnificent writing, the gallery of characters, the fascinating glimpse into the 'right now' make it stand about twenty feet tall among new books I've read." - Darin Strauss
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